symbolic violence
(en)
a term used by Slavoj Žižek to refer to a form of objective violence that has to do with language
Highlighted phrases
symbolic violence
there is a 'symbolic' violence embodied in language and its forms, what Heidegger would call ‘our house of being' [...] there is a more fundamental form of violence still that pertains to language as such, to its imposition of a certain universe of meaning
notable
7 years, 3 months ago